Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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40 Tlllgl YALE SIIINGLE. manufacturer. He t1'aces English, Scotch and Irish ancestry to the time of Henry VIII. He prepared for college at the Winsted High School, and gradu- ated from Yale in 1862. AuNo1.1m W1x'1'soN S1114:1nx1AN was born amidst uni- versal rejoicing in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 29, 1373. His father is a coffee merchant in that city. IIe traces his blood to 1560, locating the home of his tribe in Dedham County, Essex, England. In his encyclopedia of distinguished relatives appear the names of many Shermans, Nathaniel Taylor, Isaac Hayes and others without number who have held or declined positions of honor, emolument and trust. IIe attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Among the honors which fell to him were a prize for an essay and tl1e nomination to a fellowship of Columbia College. James Cl.1XIili S111f:1:woo11 was born in Brooklyn, Mass., January 26, 1874. Rev. James M. Sherwood, D. D., an author and editor, is his father. IIC traces his English blood to A. D. 500, to Sherwood forest in Merry England. He attended the Brooklyn Poly- technic Institute and Hopkins Grammar School. AI.l 1ll42Il wVll,l.OUtilI15X' SM1'1'11 was born in Odessa, Russia, September 24, 1870. His home is in Middle- bury, Vt. His father, Timothy D. Smith, physician, was United States Consul at Odessa, and at Galatz, Roumania. On his father's side he traces his blood to the settlement of Massachusettsg on his mother's

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'l'lll'l VALIC SlllNGl.l'I. 39 by the action of the Faculty in abolishing them. Ile studied law one year at that University. .Maries I-iM151:soN O,CONNL3li was born at Chester, Conn., February 4, 1869, and has lived there since. His father, William O'Connor, has retired from busi- ness. His blood is Irish, traceable to his grandfather. As yet, he has no distinguished relatives. He attended the East Greenwich Academy, and was for some time engaged in business. G1+:oRo14: OWEN R1-:D1NGToN was born at Syracuse, N. Y., April 30, 1871. His father, I. C. O. Reding- ton, is a publisher. His ancestry, of English origin, can be traced to 1640, when the first of the name came to America. Preparing at the Syracuse High School, he took two years at Syracuse University, receiving many class and athletic honors. MA'r'r11Ew Aiviimosis REY'NOI,I7S was born at North Bradford, Conn., March IO. 1871, and has since lived in New Haven. His father, Martin Reynolds, was a carriage trimmer. He traces his Irish blood to Ire- land and no farther. He graduated from the Hill- house High School in 1888, valedictorian of his class, and from Yale in 1892, receiving high honors, espec- ially in mathematics. :FRANK VV1uo11'1' S14:vMoUR was born on the morning of August 7, 1871, at Colebrook, Conn., where he spent the first live years of his life, then moving to Winsted. His father, .lohn Seymour, is a carriage

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Tllli YALE SIIINGLIQ. 41 to the Norman Conquest. Taken as a whole, l1is blood is English slightly tinctured by German a11d Italian. Among distinguished relatives, he names two VVilliams and one Walter Prout, General Liprandi, and Adam Smith. He went to a college in Odessa. I.lA1iu1soN Jo11N 'l'131.1.,1f:n was born i11 Central City, Col., September IO, 1869, and has spent his life there and in VVashington, D. C. His father, Henry M. Teller, a lawyer, is Senator from Colorado, and was Secretary of the Interior under Arthur. His blood, representing many nations of Europe, can be traced to I63Q. He prepared at Ritenhouse Academy and Hoplcin's Grammar School, and graduated from Yale in 1892. Jznxnas lflmivcis '1'o1z1mNc1f: was born in Birnnnff- H ham, Conn., April 9, 1872. His father, David Tor- rance, has been Secretary of State, Judge of Common Pleas, Superior, and Supreme Courts. His ancestry, Scotch and French, can be traced to IO66. IQICIIARIJ H1-:NNY 'l'YN1:11 was born at Davenport, Iowa, February IO, 1868. He has spent his life there and at Des Moines. His father, Jonas Tyner, is a farmer. His blood is English and Scotch and can be traced for fourteen generations. He was engaged in some kind of business before coming to Yale. C11AR1.15s Wulsisii first appeared at York, Pa., April 16, 1871. His father, Erastus Weiser, was a lawyer. His greatness does not rest in tl1e bones of a buried